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BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 363, Issue 3, Pages 701-707Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.09.020
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Crohn's disease; CXCL9; polymorphism; chemokine; inflammatory bowel disease
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Genetic and environmental factors contribute to the etiopathogenesis of Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC). To identify new susceptibility genes, we determined the mRNA expression level of 88 genes from different biological contexts on colonic biopsies of new CD and UC patients. We show that CXCL9 was overexpressed in colonic tissue of 3/5 CD and 3/3 UC patients compared to healthy controls. SNP genotyping for the 77147452G -> A polymorphism of the CXCL9 gene on 114 pediatric IBD patients and 120 ethnically matched unaffected adults detected a minor allele frequency of 20.3% in CD patients compared to 31.3% in controls (p = 0.016). Strikingly, children with homozygosity for the wild-type allele had a significant earlier onset of CD than heterozygous individuals (11.1 versus 13.8 years). This is the first report of inverse association of the CXCL9 77147452G -> A polymorphism with pediatric CD. Our data may contribute to a better understanding of the pathophysiology underlying CD. (C) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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